NAME¶
psidtopgm - convert PostScript "image" data into a portable graymap
SYNOPSIS¶
psidtopgm width height bits/sample [
imagedata]
DESCRIPTION¶
Reads the "image" data from a PostScript file as input. Produces a
portable graymap as output.
This program is obsoleted by
pstopnm. What follows was written before
pstopnm existed.
This is a very simple and limited program, and is here only because so many
people have asked for it. To use it you have to
manually extract the
readhexstring data portion from your PostScript file, and then give the width,
height, and bits/sample on the command line. Before you attempt this, you
should
at least read the description of the "image" operator
in the PostScript Language Reference Manual.
It would probably not be too hard to write a script that uses this filter to
read a specific variety of PostScript image, but the variation is too great to
make a general-purpose reader. Unless, of course, you want to write a
full-fledged PostScript interpreter...
SEE ALSO¶
pnmtops(1),
pgm(5)
AUTHOR¶
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.